Inking and recording mechanism.



UNITED- STATES IsAAc SADEMENT, OF EAST ORANGE,

AMERICAN MECHANICAL CASHIER PATENT OFFICE.

NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO COMPANY, OF NEW YORK,

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 9, 1906.

Application filed January 9, 1904. Serial No. 188.390.

To all whom it may concern.- Be it known that I, IsAAc S. DEMENT, a

' citizen of the United States, and a resident of ast Orange, county of Essex, State of New Jersey, have invented new and useful Improvements in Inking and Recording Mechanism, of which the following is a specificatron.

My invention relates to inking and record mg mechanism. It is mechanism.

It has for its object to dispense with a separate inking-ribbon or inking-surfaoe and yet have an inking-surface in direct contact with the recording-surface at the time the printing is done It consists of the novel devices and combinations herein shown and described.

y improvement may be usedwith any suitable printing device.

In the dr useful in any printing resent invention, shown as simplyi lustrav tive of one form of printing device with which my improvement can be employed.

eferring to the drawings, sents the recording-strip used in my improvement. Fig. represents the mannerin which such recording-strip is folded upon itself.

1 represents the preferred form of combined recording and inking strip used by me in my improvement. It is provided on one side 2 with any suitable recording-surface such, for instance, as,paper an d-on the other, 3, it is provided with any suitable inking-surface.

As shown, the printing device consists of a hammer 4, pivoted at 5 and actuated in any suitable manner, and of type 6, which in the form shown are loosely mounted in a sliding bar 7. This sliding bar may be moved by any suitable means to bring any type upon the printing-line above the hammer 4.

8 1s a platen-surface betweenwhich and the ty e passes the recording-strip.

I fo d the combined strip upon itself, so as to hung the inking-surface of one fold oppo- Figure 1 repre site the recording-surface of an adjacent fold on the printing-line. In the form of'my improvement shown I accomplish this, so as to cause the opposingsurface ofthe first and third folds along the printing-line to consist of an inking-surface and a recording-surface. Referring to the form shown in the drawings, the combined recording and inking strip is wound upon a roller 9. passes around idle rollers 10, 11,12, 13, 14., and 15 and is wound up on roller 16.- The means for moving the strip are not shown, as they form no part of the present invention. As the combined strip passes the printingline the first time or the first fold, as I term it herein, the recording-surface 2 is uppermost and the inking-surface 3 is beneath. The second fold, which lies between rollers 12 and 13, is merely for the purpose of bringing the strip into the right position to pass the printing-line with the recording-surface and inking-surface arranged similarly to that of the first foldthat is to say, with the recordingsurface uppermost and the inking-surface beneath. The third fold lies between the rollers 14 and 15. As will be seen, at the printing-line the first and third folds have t eir inking-surface on the under side of the combined strip.

By the above arrangement the recordlngsurface of the lower or third fold is brought into direct contact with the inking-surface of the first fold, and when the hammer is operated a clear and distinct impression will be made upon the recording-surface of the strip. By the above means a single recordingstrip can be employed and a separate ribbon 'or separate inking devices dispensed-with without in any way impairing the clearness of the printing impressions. Thus the means for printing in any machine can be very much simplified, all of the driving mechanism, for example, used commonly for moving an inking-ribbon being done away with.

By means of the above arrangement a second recording-strip 17 may be employed, as shown in Fig. 3. By leaving a space between the type and the combined strip the strip 17 can be inserted in place and its recording-surface be brought directly into contact with an inking-surface. Such additional recording-strip may be of any desired kindas, .for example, an ordinary strip of From thence it folding the combined recording andinking.

same direction as strip upon itself, and other modifications may be made than those shown ord'escribed herein Without departin from my invention, the essentials ot'which are-set forth in the claims appended hereto:

What I cla1m-as new, and desire to-secure by Letters Patent, is

1 The combinationof a combined-record ing'and' inking strip, a printing device, means for passing the strip pasttherinting-line'of the printing device twice,.so:t at the opposing surfaces of the two portions of the strip upon the printing-line shall consist of'an inking-surface and a recording-surface 'respec tively.

2'. The combination of'a combined recorda o r c 0 1ng and inking strip, aprlnting device, meanspast the printing-llne of the printing device from one direction, means for passing the strip outside of the printing-line of the printing device back to the printing-line, and passing it again in the before past the printingline, so-that the opposing surfaces of the twoportions of the strip u on. the printing-line shall consist of an in ing and a recording" surface respectively.

3. The combination of a combined record'- ing and inking strip, a printing device, means" for passing'the strlp past the printing-line of the printin device twice, so t at the inkingsurfaces of both ortions of the strip upon the printing-line-sha I face the same way.

for passing the strip 4. The combination of a combined recording and inking strip, a printing device, means for passing-the strip past theprinting lineof the printing device from one dlrection; means for passing" the strip outside of the rintingline of the printing device back to t e print ing-line, and passing it again in the same direction as before past the rinting-line, so that the inking-surfaces of oth portions of the strip on the printing-line shall be both on the type side of the printing device. v

5. he combination ofa combined recording and inking strip, a printing device, means for passing the strippast the=printing-line'of, the printing device from'one-direction; means for passing-the strip outside-- of the rintingline of'theprintingdeviceback to t e printing-line, and passing it again in the same direction as before past t e rinting-line; sothat the inking-surfaces of h oth portions of the strip on the-printing lineshall be both on the type side of the printing-device, and a second recording-strip adapted to lie-a%inst the exposed inking-surfaceof the com ined strip on theprinting line;

6; The combination of a combined record ing and inking'strip, for passing the strip past the the printing device twice, sot

rinting-line' of at theinkingsurfaces of both portions of' thestripupon;

the printing-line shall facethe same way, and a second recording strip adapted to-l1e' against the inkingesurface ofi oneof" the said portions ofthe'stri In testimony whereof I? have signe'd -my nameto this specificationinithepresence of two-subscribing-witnesses;

ISAAC D- ENT.

Witnesses-z T J'. O: GEMPLES', EDWIN Scene.

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